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225 w/ Martin Gurri - "The Revolt of the Public"

The Fifth Column

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Is There a Relationship Between Podcasts and the New York Times?

Matt Welch: There's an inherent attraction to that. It, it is, it is exuding contempt for people in a lot of different directions. And one of the reasons I think that people migrate towards other fora podcasts being one of them are because they go into a corner and they have fun. He says media establishment sees itself in really heated competition for attention and for relevance with all these other sources of information. The fact that there's occasionally misinformation in the New York Times, like questionable stories about whether or not a police officer was clubbed over the head with a fire extinguisher, which eventually seems to be pretty dubious doesn't seem to alarm them in nearly the same way he says

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